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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French repulsif, from Medieval Latin repulsivus, from Latin repulsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/
- enPR: /rĭ-pŭl'sĭv/, /rē-pŭl'sĭv/
Adjective
repulsive (comparative more repulsive, superlative most repulsive)
- Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
a repulsive smell
- (physics) Having the capacity to repel.
- Cold; reserved; forbidding.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Collocations
with nouns (physics)
- repulsive force
- repulsive interaction
- repulsive potential
Translations
tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
- Bulgarian: противен (bg) (protiven), отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen)
- Catalan: repulsiu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 令人厌恶的
- Finnish: kuvottava (fi), luotaantyöntävä (fi)
- French: répugnant (fr), repoussant (fr)
- Galician: repulsivo
- German: abstoßend (de), widerlich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: βδελυρός (bdelurós), βδελυκτός (bdeluktós)
- Hebrew: דּוֹחֶה m (doẖé)
- Hungarian: visszataszító (hu)
- Italian: repellente (it)
- Latin: taeter
- Macedonian: одбивен m (odbiven), одвратен m (odvraten)
- Maori: maninohea, etieti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frastøtende, heslig (no), ekkel, motbydelig (no), ufyselig
- Ottoman Turkish: طاتسز (tatsız), ناخوش (nahoş), لذتسز (lezzetsiz)
- Polish: odpychający (pl)
- Portuguese: repulsivo (pt)
- Romanian: respingător (ro), dezgustător (ro)
- Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), омерзи́тельный (ru) (omerzítelʹnyj), отта́лкивающий (ru) (ottálkivajuščij)
- Spanish: repulsivo (es)
- Swedish: motbjudande (sv)
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physics: having the capacity to repel
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re.pulˈsi.ve/
- Rhymes: -ive
- Hyphenation: re‧pul‧sì‧ve
Adjective
repulsive
- feminine plural of repulsivo